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Book Group

Next Book Group meeting will be June 10th, 2025, at 4 pm in the library. 


Reading Selection for discussion
​at the April Meeting:
Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!
​​
​by Fanny Flagg
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Once again, Flagg's humor and respect and affection for her characters shine forth. Many inhabit small-town or suburban America. But this time, her heroine is urban: a brainy, beautiful, and ambitious rising star of 1970s television. Dena Nordstrom, pride of the network, is a woman whose future is full of promise, her present rich with complications, and her past marked by mystery.

Among the colorful cast of characters are:

Sookie, of Selma, Alabama, Dena's exuberant college roommate, who is everything that Dena is not; she is thrilled by Dena's success and will do everything short of signing autographs for her; Sookie's a mom, a wife, and a Kappa forever
        
Dena's cousins, the Warrens, and her aunt Elner, of Elmwood Springs, Missouri, endearing, loyal, talkative, ditsy, and, in their way, wise
        
Neighbor Dorothy, whose spirit hovers over them all through the radio show that she broadcast from her home in the 1940s
        
Sidney Capello, pioneer of modern sleaze journalism and privateer of privacy, and Ira Wallace, his partner in tabloid television
        
Several doctors, all of them taken with—and almost taken in by-Dena

There are others, captivated by a woman who tries to go home again, not knowing where home or love lie.
Reading List:
​
June
Welcome to the World Baby Girl
by Fannie Flagg
​*Audio Cassette

July
The House of the Spirits
by Isabelle Allende
​*Audio CD

August
Braiding Sweetgrass, Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
​*Libby, Audio CD

​* Titles with audio versions and where to find them.
​If you would like an Audio CD version, please ask to order it ahead of time.

Past Selections:

Caleb's Crossing
by Geraldine Brooks


The Warmth of Other Suns
by Isabel Wilkerson


The Sentence
by Louise Erdrich


Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates


Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett


Walking with the Great Apes
Sy Montgomery

All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr

Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
by Margaret Renkl

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Diaz

Salt: A World History
by Mark Kurlansky

​The Dictionary of Lost Words
by Pip Williams

A History of the World in 6 Glasses
by Tom Standage


Major Petttigrew's Last Stand
by Helen Simonson

Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel

Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution
by Nathaniel Philbrick
​

The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas

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